Why Heart Attack is striking people in 30s or 40s?

Heart attack at young age is the biggest jeopardy. The disease has never been suspected in the first place, most of the patients assume its symptoms wrongly to be “gas” or “muscle” pain. In many cases, patients neglect the symptoms instead visit their nearby pharmacy for some over-the-counter medication. Sometimes, sadly, even doctors ignore the symptoms and don’t take an ECG which is a diagnostic tool to detect a heart attack.

With the fact that muscles around the heart cannot survive more than a few minutes while lacking oxygenated blood, these patients lose the heart pumping capacity as a segment of their heart muscle is injured permanently.

What breaks young hearts?

In old age people, almost all heart attacks are caused by atherosclerotic blockages in coronary arteries. Conventional coronary artery disease also noticeable in young adults, resulting in about 80% of heart attacks. Reasons behind Heart Attack in adults;

Single coronary artery disease.

Inborn abnormalities in the anatomy of a coronary artery.

Blood clots that emerge from elsewhere and are carried out in the bloodstream to normal coronary arteries in another way, where they block the artery.

Inflammation or Spasm of the coronary arteries, amphetamines, chest trauma, and abuse of cocaine, radiation therapy for chest tumors, or other drugs.

Heart Attacks are uncommon in women:

Estrogen the sex hormone is the lifesaver for females. Estrogen has various favorable effects on cardiovascular health, lowering LDL (Bad) cholesterol and increasing HDL (Good) cholesterol. Estrogen is also an antioxidant which offsets toxic chemicals. As a result heart attack become uncommon in women but before menopause.

Warning signs of heart attack:

Common Warnings:

Chest discomfort that feels like fullness, pressure, or a squeezing pain that lasts up to a or more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back.

Discomfort and pain that goes above your chest to other parts of the upper body, like one or both arms, or your back, teeth, neck, stomach, and jaw

Sudden unexplained breath shortness, with or without any chest discomfort

Other symptoms, such as:

Cold sweats

Nausea or vomiting

Light-headedness

Anxiety or Indigestion

Unexplained fatigue

Additional symptoms in women:

Neck, shoulder, upper back, or abdominal pain

The risk factors for a heart attack include:

High blood pressure

High cholesterol

Smoking

Diabetes

Poor diet

Being overweight or obese

Inactive lifestyle

Excessive drinking

To prevent your risk of a heart attack:

Control your weight if you’re obese or come under the overweight category.

Quit smoking and minimize your exposure to second-hand smoke.

Control your high blood cholesterol and high blood pressure by revising your diet, lose weight, take proper medication, or follow a combination of these things.

Stay physically active all the time.

In the case of diabetes, take good care by sticking to prescribed treatment and managing your blood sugar.

POPULAR CATEGORY

Buzz2Day is a global media and branding company, most admired for News or Information related to business, entertainment, health, lifestyle, technology, sports, history, and top10s. With over 9.8 million viewers worldwide and 20 million unique visitors a month Buzz2day gives you a ubiquitous platform for informational videos and articles through its youtube channel and website.